. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . &?f&. SCENES FROM SOLDIER LIFE BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAINSIDE Tins picture, aside from the beautiful touches at the close, is to beprized for the record it affords of the large soul of Walt Whitman. Hewitnessed little of life at the front, but he saw all of the horror of warin the hospitals at Washington, and exhausted his splendid vitality incomforting and aiding the wounded and dying. Yet into his poetrycrept no word of bitterness or sectionalism. I see before me now a traveling army halting, Below, a fertile valley spread, with barns
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . &?f&. SCENES FROM SOLDIER LIFE BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAINSIDE Tins picture, aside from the beautiful touches at the close, is to beprized for the record it affords of the large soul of Walt Whitman. Hewitnessed little of life at the front, but he saw all of the horror of warin the hospitals at Washington, and exhausted his splendid vitality incomforting and aiding the wounded and dying. Yet into his poetrycrept no word of bitterness or sectionalism. I see before me now a traveling army halting, Below, a fertile valley spread, with barns and the orchards ofsummer. Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt, in places ris-ing high, Broken, with rocks, with clinging cedars, with tall shapes din-gily seen, The numerous camp-fires scattered near and far, some away upon the mountain, The shadowy forms of men and horses, looming, large-sized,flickering, And over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded,breaking out, the eternal stars. Walt Whitman. THE BIVOUAC IN THE SNOW The represe
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